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Topic: "I am boycotting Nikon" campaign (Read 17328 times)

Those are hogs, and hogs are numerous, and rather a nussance as well, but worse still often a threat to local endangered and threatened populations. I am totally against poaching of threatened species, and totally against wanton destruction. But, some animals NEED to be hunted by man, often especially because we displaced their predators through habitat destruction. Here in Florida, hogs are a severe nuisance, and the laws are actually pretty easy-going about the taking o' hogs. The poster says "Bring home the bacon", so the thought is not some Great White Hunter racking up tons of kills for trophies, but a productive use, potentially, anyway. THere is no reason to be so sensitive about this...

Quite so. I live in S Florida and we are overrun with harmful exotics. We have beautiful lionfish ravaging our reefs, and all sorts of pythons taking over the Everglades. Both species are pretty much on the "kill on sight" list. Can I put a Nikon scope on a speargun? The diffraction of the water might compensate for the crappy optics...

Would be interesting to know the breakdown on sales to gun toter's (hunters and government ) vs. non-gun related activities. Canon probably has a good idea and won't release that information for good reason.

Those are hogs, and hogs are numerous, and rather a nussance as well, but worse still often a threat to local endangered and threatened populations. I am totally against poaching of threatened species, and totally against wanton destruction. But, some animals NEED to be hunted by man, often especially because we displaced their predators through habitat destruction. Here in Florida, hogs are a severe nuisance, and the laws are actually pretty easy-going about the taking o' hogs. The poster says "Bring home the bacon", so the thought is not some Great White Hunter racking up tons of kills for trophies, but a productive use, potentially, anyway. THere is no reason to be so sensitive about this...

Quite so. I live in S Florida and we are overrun with harmful exotics. We have beautiful lionfish ravaging our reefs, and all sorts of pythons taking over the Everglades. Both species are pretty much on the "kill on sight" list. Can I put a Nikon scope on a speargun? The diffraction of the water might compensate for the crappy optics...

Indeed we are. Sadly, a scope would help none helping either... Always aim left with a Nikon scope!

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If their scopes are anything like their lenses then you'll need a pocket book of caveats depending on the age of your gun..

The nikon f mount will work on any nikon slr.. except if you need aperture index, except if you need an AF motor, on an fx body but at 3mp etc etc etc.

It's a pretty nasty advert, but then it probably appeals to the mindset of the nasty people who shoot animals for fun (and I am clear to make the distinction between fun and necessary culls)

If canon made a similar advert or made a similar product would I boycott? Probably not. Theres all sorts of reasons to boycott all sorts of products.. some folk might boycott a japenese product because of their historical reluctance to accept and apologise for war crimes, some folk might boycott an israeli manufactured bag because they don't like the way the palestinians are treated.

I grew up in a lefty house, so nestle was barred at one point over the african baby milk powder, outspan over apartheid etc. but these companies are still in business. I'm sure nikon will survive. Despite recent attrocities recreational gun users don't seem to putting down their arms any time soon.

I am not a hunter myself and do not see the attraction of it. Nevertheless, properly regulated hunting can bring in lots of money for conservation. And the statements above about feral hogs - which are non-native invasives - are certainly true. The boycott is ridiculous.

Those are hogs, and hogs are numerous, and rather a nussance as well, but worse still often a threat to local endangered and threatened populations. I am totally against poaching of threatened species, and totally against wanton destruction. But, some animals NEED to be hunted by man, often especially because we displaced their predators through habitat destruction. Here in Florida, hogs are a severe nuisance, and the laws are actually pretty easy-going about the taking o' hogs. The poster says "Bring home the bacon", so the thought is not some Great White Hunter racking up tons of kills for trophies, but a productive use, potentially, anyway. THere is no reason to be so sensitive about this...

To me, so what - This may cause a few fringe anti-hunters to boycott Nikon and possibly even more sane people to buy it.

Whole thing is stupid if you ask me (which you did not). Hunting is a personal choice, hunting endangered is criminal but not a reason to boycott the make of the rifle scope. Would you boycott a keyboard manufacturer because some people who use the keyboard are hackers???

As always, animal rights activists seem to live on another planet and completely fail to connect to the rest of the world, but certainly the us american public. After all arms manufacturers don't kill, and gun's don't either, it's the people that use them, so if people abuse automatic weapons or scopes it's certainly only the fault of a small minority? But well, here's probably not the place to discuss that in depth.

But for some reason or another Nikon doesn't seem to be entirely unaffected by the pressure - they recently re-designed their arms website to exclude shots of happy hunters standing in 19s century pose above capital prey and renamed it from "Nikon Hunting" to "Nikon Sport Optics".

.I'm boycotting all these imaging companies. They make infernal machines that steal your soul!

My belief is that corporations have essentially completed their takeover of the world. They will make minor adjustments responding to niggling little complaints like this to keep sales at full tilt. Beyond that, we and they are on a path to destroy this planet. Since I can't stop it, I plan to enjoy the ride into the pits of hell.